Wichita eagle., 1887-05-20
TWOTHOUSAND RESIDENCES
The Record Of Years Growth in
Round Numbers.
Tho Returns OF the City Assessor on one Fea-
ture OF the Winning Wonders Opera
tons for Year.

When city assessor w. F. Green las
year returned eight hundred and sixty
eight resident houses erected for the veal
ending June 1, 1886, in this city, many Of
our people wondered what was to be the
outcome of this marvellous growth, while
papers published in older towns lost no
opportunity in making known to the world
that such growth was not in the bounds OF
reason and was Wichita lie. This rapid
growth was followed by rapid rise in the
price of all inside and suburban property,
and it was predicted that the wild specula-
ton in town lots would put stop to fur
ther building; that men would not invest
their capital in buildings while such i'm
mense profits were to be realized in
the rise in the price of town
lots. But those who were bewildered with
the boom in prices during the winter in
city property are today dumbfounded by
the rush and clatter of the building boom.
Not only along the business streets are ris-
ing magnificent blocks, but the resident
parts of the city are keeping pace. and the
magnificent procession of the Peerless
Princess is the admiration of unnumbered
peoples throughout the world. Today Mr..
Green completed his returns of resident
houses erected since last July. and we have
the unprecedented number of one thousand,
nine hundred and nine. The First ward
has six hundred and thirty eight; Second
ward two hundred and ninety five; Third
" ard one hundred and sixty-one; Fourth
ward five hundred and seventeen,
and the Fifth ward two hundred
and ninty eight. This does not include
business houses, ware houses, factories,
barns and many other buildings, but the
actual residence houses, that cost all the
way from six hundred dollars to twenty
five thousand each. These new buildings
will furnish homes for the thousands addi-
tional people. And still the cry from con-
tractors is for more brick, lumber and
stone, and from the crowded dwellings. |
and from the tents along the river comes
the demand for still more houses Some |
idea of these dwellings may be obtained |
when we think that by joining them to-
gether and allowing thirty feet for each
house they would make continuous house
nearly ten miles long. And if we string
them out, leaving twenty -five feet on either
side of each house. to be fenced for ward
and Ornamented with trees. as is the
custom In Wichita, they would reach a
distance of nearly thirty miles. The i'm
mense amount Of capital now being in
vested in buildings, in street railways, in
water works. and other enterprises simply
astonlshes people who are used to more
conservative WAYS and yet this city is
scarcely keeping pace with the increasing
demand made by the rapidly developing
and cities tributary to it, When !
people SAL that Wichita is without pre-
cedeni IN Ter rapid strides to greatness,
they do not remember that the rapid set
Element of this great south west is UMPIRE
cedented There are great things yet in
store for the people and the near future
will develop them. Let him who lacks
faith cease from trying to discourage the
energetic people who arc developing the
Empire of the southwest, and stand still
and behold the glory of the Lord